Word: elected
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...parallel in U.S. territorial history. Granted by Congress in 1952, it gives the island many rights of statehood, but without the responsibilities. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, may travel to the mainland without restriction; they need no passports and come under no immigration quotas. At home, they elect their own local government. They are not entitled to vote in U.S. presidential elections, or to voting representation in Congress. But they do elect a "Resident Commissioner," who sits in the U.S. House and participates in debates involving Puerto Rico. U.S. armed forces guard the island and Puerto Rico is served, like...
...well either, and for the real Shore citizen no one born elsewhere can ever be regarded quite as an equal. "If you're not born here you'll always be an out-sider" the town's mayor told a group recently. What he meant was that only the natural elect can arrive at relevant judgements of local affairs...
...Leader Walter Reuther and Senator Hubert Humphrey. Last May he made the televised speech rebutting President Kennedy's Madison Square Garden appeal for a social-security-financed medicare bill. In the year before he assumes the A.M.A.'s presidency. Dr. Annis will wield great influence as president-elect...
...When he left Cambridge University in 1945 to join Courtaulds Ltd., Physicist Sir Alan Wilson, 56, was best known as an expert in quantum theory. He did so able a job of reorganizing the British textile giant's research program that he was named chairman-elect of the company last October...
...think we can elect a Democratic President, a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate, and I think when that is done this country can begin to move again...